Blackwood shop fined for underage vape sale

The directors of a vape shop have been fined for selling a nicotine product to an underage customer.

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Cloud Chaser Limited, of High Street, Blackwood, trading as Infinity Mist, pleaded guilty to a number of offences after selling vape juice to a 15-year-old.

The case was heard at Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court last month and related to three separate offences in relation to the sale in August 2018.

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Two offences, under the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, related to the lack of labelling and instructions for the vape juice.

The company was fined a total of £660, ordered to pay a surcharge of £66 and costs of £509.40 to Caerphilly Trading Standards.

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Directors Mohammed Shehzad Ghani, 38, from Newport, and Fesal Sohail, 27, from Cwmbran, were both fined £250, ordered to pay a surcharge of £30 and both paid Trading Standards costs of £400.

Cllr Eluned Stenner, Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Public Protection said, “As a council we are committed in making sure the Caerphilly county borough is a healthy, safe and fair place to live. Our Trading Standards department is crucial in making sure this happens by stopping crime and disorder through prosecutions like this.”